Re: [gentoo-user] NAS for Windows - does any Wiki solution 'just work'?

[Mark Knecht]

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info> wrote:
>
> On Oct 5, 2011 12:10 AM, "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info> wrote:
>> <SNIP>
>> > If you want to rebuild it totally, why not go the simpler route of
>> > installing 'soft appliances' like FreeNAS, OpenFiler, or Nexenta?
>> >
>> > Rgds,
>> >
>>
>> Thanks for the suggestions. I didn't know about any of these.
>>
>> Some comments:
>>
>> 1) The machine is already running Gentoo and is reasonably up to date.
>> (Within 30 days or so) I didn't want to start from scratch but rather
>> just wanted to remove a couple of drives which don't support system
>> needs, throw a couple of 1TB hard drives and hopefully I'm up and
>> running.
>>
>> 2) As for the three suggestions, and at a glance they all look very
>> capable of supporting my limited needs, I really don't want to learn
>> to maintain a server running different tools. (I.e. - anything not
>> portage)
>>
>> I sure like the look of the FreeNAS pages though.
>>
>
> TBH, I have no experience with either FreeNAS or Nexenta, but people I know
> in other fora swear by them.
>
> As to OpenFiler, I've deployed it several times in my office, twice for
> production. It's quite easy to manage, especially since it's update-able
> from the webGUI.
>
> There *is* a learning curve, though. Exposing OpenFiler to act as a NAS box
> that's accessible from Windows has a few gotchas, but after reading some
> wikis, I got it up and running beautifully.
>
> Rgds,
>

I wonder if VMWare monitors this list? I just a couple a minutes ago
received an email offering me VMware vSphere Storage Appliance at the
low, low cost of $10,180. And that's 40% off list price! :-)

- Mark